i knew a lot of people that lived here, or at least, my cousins did. actually, the cousins i didn’t want to hang out with did. so technically, i didn’t really know anyone who lived here. i just knew that people did. and i was pretty curious about them. i remember that one summer a tornado effectively took this trailer park out. knocked the shit out of some mobile homes and sent trees crashing down on top of them to boot. totally scary — tornados and trailer parks — separately, together, whatever — were not something my californian self was at all prepared for.